How to compare installed packages between old system and new system ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

  • How to compare installed packages between old system and new system ?

Resolution

  • Please use below commands.

# rpm -qa > installedpackage_oldserver.txt # rpm -qa > installedpackage_newserver.txt Compare with diff # diff -c installedpackage_oldserver.txt installedpackage_newserver.txt
  • Component
  • rpm

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